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Lawmaker blasts Amazon’s ‘performative’ support of Black Lives Matter movement

Amazon, which last week imposed a one-year ban on selling its controversial facial-recognition technology to the police, is being called out for a \performative\ gesture amid the ongoing Black Lives Matter protests. That technology, known as Rekogntiion, has long drawn the ire of racial justice groups and civil liberties advocates, who claim it is biased …

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Amazon’s Jeff Bezos is willing to testify before Congress, letter reveals

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos could testify before Congress as soon as this summer as the company faces antitrust scrutiny on Capitol Hill. In a letter sent to House lawmakers and first reported by the New York Times, a lawyer for Amazon said they will make Bezos \available to testify at a hearing with the other …

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